#Twiplomacy: #Italy steps up as a key player in #digitaldiplomacy

"Twiplomacy: Diplomacy in the Twitter Age" was a very successful event. While #twiplomacy hashtag was trending in Italy to a top 2nd place, an extraordinary panel with @AlecJRoss @GiulioTerzi @benmhennilina @mariocalabresi highlighted how #socialmedia has changed the face of foreign policy.

  1. #Twiplomacy @AlecJRoss "it is not the strongest that survive, nor the intelligent but that most adabtable to change"
  2. Complimenti @GiulioTerzi da oggi la Farnesina è 2.0.. #Twiplomacy fattore chiave x futuro diplomazia e x successo #expo2015! @beppemanzo
  3. TT ITALIA 15:33 1.#NuoviPeccati 2.#italyneedselena 3.#Twiplomacy 4.Studio Aperto 5.Cicchitto 6.Drake 7.Nicole Minetti 8.Della Valle
  4. Lina Ben Mhenni @benmhennilina, Tunisian blogger and activist at #twiplomacy on the role of Twitter in the Arab Spring http://static-cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/live/viewer:62.swf?cid=27596/twiplomacy-223619&vrsl=c:217
  5. .@benmhennilina shows how from simple #hashtag Tunisia was able to nurture revolution & create "a strong diaspora community" #twiplomacy
  6. .@AlecJRoss: #SecClinton learned about revolution in Tunisia from hashtag, not from a diplomat or a cable... That introduced the complexity
  7. "The Tunisian revolution started on the ground, it didn't start on Twitter": @benMhennilina a #Twiplomacy @La_StampaLive
  8. @AlecJRoss: Use #socialmedia as a gateway to deeper investigations not as an end in itself. A place to listen and then2 engage. #twiplomacy
  9. RT @andreas212nyc: @pierofassino: "3 risks of #twiplomacy: verificability, instantaneity, instrumentality. But change needs to be lived...
  10. #Twiplomacy - Governments and diplomats have to learn how to listen and learn from people on Social Media - @AlecJRoss
  11. #Twiplomacy puts into evidence who are the authentic, willing-to-learn, deeply engaged global leaders. @antonioderuda @invisigot
  12. @AlecJRoss my message to presdents and diplomats: the control you used to have 10 years ago is gone. You have to cope with this #Twiplomacy
  13. @AlecJRoss: I don't care about technology I do care about foreign policy! #Twiplomacy
  14. .@GiulioTerzi: "By interconnecting people everywhere at anytime, the web is progressively eroding spatial and social barriers" #twiplomacy
  15. .@GiulioTerzi: "We adapt. We have been doing this for centuries: each technology-driven revolution shifted way diplomacy works" #twiplomacy
  16. .@GiulioTerzi: "Modern agorà an enormous piazza where anyone's leadership is challenged & leadership concept itself's changed" #twiplomacy
  17. If Twitter were a big BBQ we journalists would bring the meat; the net would bring the sauce, beer & friends - @MarioCalabresi #Twiplomacy
  18. RT @marcobardazzi: Il mondo non sta cambiando, è già cambiato: @mariocalabresi parte con citazione @alecjross #Twiplomacy @La_StampaLive http://pic.twitter.com/09k8o3vr
  19. RT @annamasera: #Twiplomacy @La_StampaLive @mariocalabresi spiega come funziona scelta notizie nei #giornali e ricetta.. http://pic.twitter.com/EIrn2UQd
  20. RT @annamasera: @AlecJRoss #Twiplomacy "il #digital_divide si riduce nel mondo e fa bene alla democrazia" @GiulioTerzi @mariocalabresi http://pic.twitter.com/shK7IGgr

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